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From: "Alexander E. Patrakov" <patrakov@gmail.com>
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] BKL: Remove BKL from isofs
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:40:55 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C978087.7060802@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100920151834.GF3390@quack.suse.cz>

[I know nothing about linux filesystem code, please disregard this mail 
if it is stupid]

20.09.2010 21:18, Jan Kara wrote:

> BKL isn't needed for isofs at all so we can just remove it. Generally, since
> isofs is always mounted read-only, filesystem structure cannot change under us.

Does your statement also cover the case of read errors on scratched 
CD-ROMs (i.e., the driver has successfully read a sector with a 
directory once after a lot of strugging, and failed the next time), or 
ejects of mounted media?

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov

  reply	other threads:[~2010-09-20 15:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-16 14:32 Remaining BKL users, what to do Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-16 14:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-09-16 18:32   ` Jens Axboe
2010-09-17 18:46     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-16 15:04 ` Jan Kara
2010-09-16 21:26   ` Anton Altaparmakov
2010-09-17 10:45     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-17 13:32       ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-17 13:50         ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-17 14:02           ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-09-17 14:56             ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-17 19:00               ` [PATCH] BKL: Remove BKL from isofs Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-20 10:58                 ` Jan Kara
2010-09-20 11:13                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-20 15:18                     ` Jan Kara
2010-09-20 15:40                       ` Alexander E. Patrakov [this message]
2010-09-20 15:50                         ` Jan Kara
2010-09-16 15:07 ` Remaining BKL users, what to do Alan Cox
2010-09-16 20:08   ` David Miller
2010-09-16 16:09 ` Anders Larsen
2010-09-16 16:57 ` Samuel Ortiz
2010-09-16 20:08   ` David Miller
2010-09-16 19:00 ` Jan Harkes
2010-09-16 19:26   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-09-20  1:25 ` [autofs] " Ian Kent
2010-10-18 15:42 ` [v2] " Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-18 16:19   ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-18 17:38     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-18 18:43   ` [Ksummit-2010-discuss] " Greg KH
2010-10-18 23:00     ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19  0:40       ` Greg KH
2010-10-19  0:57         ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19  2:24           ` Greg KH
2010-10-19  2:45             ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19  3:33               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-19  4:03                 ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19  5:00                 ` Theodore Kilgore
2010-10-19  4:52                   ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-19  7:26                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 12:39                       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-10-19 13:54                         ` Paul Mundt
2010-10-19 13:26                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 20:50                         ` Dave Airlie
2010-10-20 16:14                           ` Ville Syrjälä
2010-10-19 18:24         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2010-10-19 19:37           ` Greg KH
2010-10-19 19:40             ` Oliver Neukum
2010-10-19 20:29               ` Greg KH
2010-10-19 20:38                 ` Jiri Kosina
2010-10-19 20:41                 ` Alan Cox
2010-10-19 20:48                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 20:44                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-20  4:43                   ` Dave Young
2010-10-20  6:50                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-11-02  1:21                   ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-03  6:58                     ` Pekka Enberg
2010-10-21 12:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-10-21 13:38   ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-21 13:50     ` [PATCH 1/2] BKL: remove BKL from qnx4 Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-21 15:22       ` Anders Larsen
2010-10-21 13:51     ` [PATCH 2/2] BKL: remove BKL from freevxfs Arnd Bergmann

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